We all have our favourites.

My favourite film is Blue is the Warmest Colour.

My favourite song is ‘Spurs are on their way to Wembley’.

My favourite animal is the chicken. Because you can cook it so many ways.

My favourite feminist is Nicole Scherzinger. Oh, she’s not a feminist? Whatever.

My favourite post war dictatorial tyrant is Bashar Assad, who beats Sadam Hussain due to current form.

And my favourite heart doctor is Assem Malhotra.

Never heard of him? You will. He’s doing for food what Jimmy Savile did for child welfare. He could be for health and medicine what Richard Branson and McDonalds are for global warming.

Because he’s a myth-shatterer. He takes some received piece of nonsense and puts it to scientific tests and draws his own conclusions, untainted by the (pretty massive) weight of contrary opinion.

And Assem (as I call him) has said that ‘eating fatty foods is NOT bad for your heart’. What a fucking prince among men. Certainly among miserable fucking medical men. Like Proffessor Weisberg, head of the British Heart Foundation, who, rather than attack this new ‘heresy’, instead decided to obfuscate somewhat and come up with a wishy-washy ‘results can be conflicting’. Ooooh, no denial there then.

I read this and went straight for a massive fry-up. For the sake of my heart. Upon medical advice.

Though he did mention ‘sugars’ and ‘bad things’ in the same sentence, but I shall forgive that. In the cause of the greater good. Or the greater kebab.

And whilst we are undemonising things, let’s take a look a the (poor man’s) Europa League/UEFA cup and how it sits relative to the (aristocratic) Champions League in the hierarchy of European Stuff.

Arsenal played last year’s beaten finalists from Dortmund and did sufficiently well to come second on Tuesday night. There were great match ups between the true royals, the Milans and Barcelonas and all was ‘wow!’ and ‘ka-boom!’ and ‘whammm!’ like Lichtenstein in 4-4-2. Well today Spurs play in the match of the week. The Big One, as its being hailed in the sporting press. When they visit Sheriff Tiraspol. SPLATT!!

Traipsol (thank you, Wikepedia) is the second largest city in Moldova. Moldova is the second largest country in… er… in that part of the world. Wherever that may be. But I’m guessing somewhere round the Black Sea; old Russia kind’a place. And its a big match. In a big place. ish. Population of nearly 4 million people. All of them racists and anti-semites.

Manchester City played in Moscow last night and there were racist taunts. It would appear that all of Russia, old and new, is full of right wing racists and anti-semites. But you definitely get a better quality of racism in the Champions League.

 

Happy Thursday

 

A xxxx